A new government study done for the NOAA shows that only 26% of the oil spilled into the Gulf by the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe still poses a threat to shorelines and wildlife. The balance…
The ever-entertaining solar PV sector provides more than its share of fun today. First, Solarfun Power Holdings Co. Ltd. (NASDAQ:SOLF), a Chinese solar PV company making crystalline wafers, cells, and modules, has ‘almost’ merged…
It now appears that the Gulf oil spill was the largest in history. A statement released by the Deepwater Horizon Incident Joint Information Center on August 2 says “at the beginning of the spill,…
Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) Chief Executive Rex Tillerson keeps a low profile. How low? His picture is not provided in his official corporate biography as it is for other top executives. That is not…
Solar power is great, unless you make the equipment behind all the solar power. The insatiable and endless growth in demand for solar panels and materials used to make them has posed an investor…
People who drive by many BP plc (NYSE: BP) gas stations in the US throw rocks at them, which has become an expensive problem for the owners of the locations. The even larger issue…
BP plc (NYSE: BP) says that it is within a week of a final solution to the leak from the wreckage of the Deepwater Horizon spill. It has begun to inject much into the…
MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. (NYSE: WFR) is one of those companies which seems to be just stuck between a rock and a hard place. Tonight’s earnings will only reflect that further. The materials maker…
Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM) is the largest integrated oil company which can come under fire because of its huge profits. Its second quarter earnings were $7.6 billion outside of special items. This is…
Those who worked to refute the huge IPCC 2007 study on global warming were wrong, perhaps. They had accused scientists of hyping their data, claims which have only recently been refuted. However, questions about…
The oil industry apparently did not learn much from the Exxon Valdez spill, the Ixtoc 1 Oil Well catastrophe of 1979, the Amoco Cadiz disaster off Brittany in 1978. And perhaps there is nothing…
GM’s Chevrolet division will start to sell the electric Volt model later this year but will produce only about 10,000 models between then and the end of 2011. Nissan will launch its Leaf electric…
The BP plc problem will not go away any more than the global sovereign debt one will. Gulf storms are the least of the UK oil company’s problems Read more…
By Tom Bower, The Daily Beast Tony Hayward sunk himself with his media gaffes and poor political performances. Can Bob Dudley do better? Read more at The Daily Beast…
There are two tentative IPOs on deck this week we are watching closely. Both are currently indicated for pricing on Wednesday evening and Thursday trading. The first, in alphabetical order, will come from Chesapeake…